The Psychological Challenges Faced By EFL Undergraduate Student After Receiving Oral Corrective Feedback

Abstract

This paper aims to identify the psychological challenges or problems faced by EFL undergraduate student after receiving oral corrective feedback (OCF) in Indonesia context, as although OCF has been massively studied yet research in the Indonesian context is still limited. A survey study was conducted with 56 participants, all of them were students of English education department enrolled in the Academic Speaking class cohort 2022 at a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The results show that the highest psychological challenge is the condition where students think about the reason of why they make mistake which lower their self-efficacy (M=3.82, SD=0.855). On the other side, the least significant challenge is when students do not really care about the feedback from their teacher (M=2.14, SD=1.086) or in the other words, students do value their teacher's feedback. Despite these psychological challenges, it was noticed that these factors did not significantly affect students' performance in learning. Instead, students tended to see more benefits from the oral corrective feedback rather than negative effects. This implies that, oral corrective feedback helps in enhancing student’s skills, despite the potential challenges to their psychological well-being.